Booker T. WASHINGTON: Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

Carter G. WOODSON: History shows that just as thorough education in the belief in the inequality of the races has brought the world to the cat-and-dog stage of religious and racial strife, so may thorough education in the equality of the races bring about a reign of brotherhood through an appreciation of all races, creeds, and colors.

Carter G. WOODSON: The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

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